Method of making strips of chance tickets

ABSTRACT

This invention relates generally to a strip of chance tickets and method of making the same, which ticket strip comprises an elongated composite or double layered strip which may be wrapped in roll form. The composite strip comprises a base and a cover strip whose longitudinal edges are coated with adhesive material. The central portion of the ticket is stamped with numbers at random, such as by an Addressograph machine. The top or cover strip has longitudinal perforations along the inner border line of the base strip adhesive material and is adhered to the base strip. Therefore, upon tearing along the top perforations, a central panel portion of the top strip can be detached so that the numbers of the bottom strip will be exposed. A base sheet is formed having longitudinal strips integrally secured along their side edges with transverse perforations and relatively large holes between tickets. The random numbers are then stamped thereon. The covering sheet is longitudinally perforated and adhered to the base sheet. Finally, the adhered covering sheet and base sheet are longitudinally slit into separate ticket strips which are wrapped into roll form.

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METHOD OF MAKING STRIPS OF CHANCE TICKETS This invention is acontinuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 878,285, filed Nov. 20,1969, and now abandoned, andof Ser. No. 213,845, filed Dec. 29, 1971,and relates to a chance ticket having a plurality of random numbersnormally .covered from view.

Chance tickets, in the past, have included numbers which were concealedfrom view until a portion of the ticket length was stripped. However,these chance tickets have not been entirely satisfactorysince they havebeen in individual form,-that is, separate tickets having differentnumbers.

An outstanding objection to such separate tickets is that some of thetickets can be removed from a pile by an unauthorized person,particularly winning numbers which are known by such person, who,sometimes may be even the operator of the game;

Another disadvantage of chance tickets of known construction is thatthey are relatively complicated in construction and involve seriousproblems in printing numbers at random in a predetermined sequence.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method of making astrip of novel chance tickets which is devoid of the abovenameddisadvantages and which can be wrapped into roll form, such as the wellknown theater admission tickets, and which includes adequatelongitudinal space, centrally thereof, to enable placing numbers oflarge size and of high denomination when necessary.

A still further object of the present invention is to provide a novelmethod of manufacturing chance tickets comprising simultaneousfabrication of a plurality of strips in integral side-by-siderelationship and in stamping such strips with numbers at random sequencewhile still in side-by-side relationship before severing the strips intoseparate rolls.

Other objects and advantages will become more apparent from a study ofthe following description taken with the accompanying drawing wherein.

FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of a fragmentary portion of a ticketstrip embodying the present invention, with the central panel of thecover strip shown partially detached from the bottom strip;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of apparatus for carrying out the method ofthe present invention for making the tickets illustrated in FIG. I; and,

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing successive forms taken by theticket strip after each operation of the method.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, a supply roll 20 (FIG. 2)dispenses a double layered strip 20a comprising a top or cover strip 21(FIG. 3) lightly adhered to a bottom or carrier strip 22, preferably ofplastic material. The strips 21, 22 are passed, as a unit, throughfrictional guiding blocks 20b, thence to a printer roll 23, comprising acentral drive roll 23, an end stamping roll 23a which prints the wordsopen here" repeatedly along four longitudinal rows (see FIG. 3) andanother end roll 23c for removing the excess paint. Thence, by aperforator wheel 24, only the top strip 21 is perforated along two edges8 (see FIG. 1),-- that is, the perforator wheel 24 extends only throughthe top layer 21 and not through the bottom layer 22, at least notthrough any substantial portion thereof.

Thereafter, the carrier or base layer 22 is rewound on the roll 22awhile the printed top layer 21 moves longitudinally until it joins aprinted ticket strip 25 comprising essentially four integral ticketrolls, sideby-side (see FIG. 3), having four lateral holes 10, eachseparating each ticket from a longitudinally adjoining ticket for eachof the four rolls or strips of tickets to be ultimately formed. The topstrip 21 is superimposed and adhered onto the bottom or ticket strip 25by means of adhesive coatings 9 along the edges of the top strip. Analternative could be to provide the coating 9 on the bottom strip andadhering it to a plain face of the top strip.

The perforating wheel 24 will effect perforations along the innerborders of the coating 9, so that upon picking up one end of the centralportion 5 of the top strip 21 and pulling, the central portion 5 willtear along the perforations 8 so as to expose the numbers 14 concealedunderneath thereof, as shown in FIG. 1.

The various strip base portions 25, while integrally secured togetheralong their sides as shown in FIG. 3, are inserted in an Addressographmachine of well known type (not shown) in which the plates thereof havedifferent numbers and are arranged in a random nonnumerical manner butwhose arrangement of Addressograph plates can be noted and recorded byauthorized persons.

After the lower ticket strip 25 is joined to the upper imprinted coverstrip 21, the two, in combination, are passed through a plurality ofcutter knives 26 (three being shown) to subdivide the double layeredstrip 21, 25 into four separate ticket strips, as indicated in the upperright portion of FIG. 3.

The four separate finished ticket strips are then rewound into rolls 2on a rewinding roll 1 so that the cover strip 21 is innermost.

Thus, in order to tear off one or more tickets, of the constructionshown in FIG. 1, from the roll, it is necessary merely to lift the endof cover strip 5 by lifting the thumb through the cut-out portion 10 andpulling the central portion 5 thereof longitudinally so as to tear theedges thereof along perforations 8, in the manner shown in FIG. 1. Thiswill expose the covered numbers, such as number 71A, or any otherdesignation or symbol, which may or may not be a prize winner,or it maybe left blank to indicate a loser.

An outstanding advantage of the construction shown in FIG. 1 is thatindividual tickets may be easily and quickly torn solely by virtue ofthe hole 10 and transverse crease 4, extending laterally between eachticket, which serves as a guide to enable also the uncreased top orcover strip 21 to be torn simultaneously along crease 4 to effectcomplete tear off of the ticket or tickets.

In short, the perforations 8 and the cut-out l0 greatly facilitateupward lifting of the top or cover layer 21, stripping along theperforations 8 and, finally, removal of the central panel 5 of the coverstrip 21 to expose the numbers on the ticket.

Another outstanding advantage is that of having the central portion ofthe strip tear along the entire length of each ticket, instead ofaportion only of such length, since it will expose a larger area of thebottom strip so as to show larger denomination numbers, as well asnumbers of sufficiently large size as to be readily seen even by thosehaving poor eyesight.

Instead of an Addressograph" machine for stamping numbers in randomsequence, the tickets may be printed by a stamping means in the form ofa large diameter wheel having, along the perimeter individualreplaceable stamps for each number (or letter) so that the order of thesuccessive stamps on the perimeter of the wheel may be changed atrandom.

The tickets may be used for playing of games which provide chances andprizes for certain winning numbers that may be listed by the operator ofthe game of chance. This may be in the form of a door prize for eachperson who, upon paying admission, obtains a ticket giving him a chanceto win one of the door prizes.

Thus it will be seen that l have provided a novel ticket construction,and method of making the same, of a chance or gift ticket wherein thenumbers are easily arranged in a random, non-numerical order of knownsequence, and wherein the tickets may be easily stripped along theentire length of a central panel portion to expose numbers of largedenominations and of large size.

While I have described and illustrated a single embodiment of myinvention, it will be understood that this is by way of illustrationonly and that various changes and modifications may be made in myinvention and within the scope of the following claims.

l claim:

1. The method of making chance tickets in strip form, comprising forminga base sheet comprising a plurality of longitudinal strip base portionsintegrally secured together along their side edges and having transverseperforations and relatively large holes between tickets to providesemi-circular cut-outs on longitudinal adjoining tickets, imprintingrandom numbers along the longitudinal central portions of said stripbase portions, perforating a separate corresponding covering sheetinwardly of the longitudinal edges of covering strip portions,corresponding to the strip base portions, along continuous lines on bothsides of the centers of said covering strip portions while said coveringsheet is lightly adhered to a carrier strip, thereafter removing saidcarrier strip and adhering the perforated covering strip portions onlyalong the longitudinal edges of said base strip portions so as to cover,without adherence, said longitudinal central portions, said transverseperforations and said relatively large holes, and finally slitting thevarious longitudinal strip base portions and adhered correspondingcovering strip portions through their longitudinal edges into separateticket strips and wrapping said strips in roll form.

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1. THE METHOD OF MAKING CHANCE TICKETS IN STRIP FORM, COMPRISING FORMINGA BASE SHEET COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINAL STRIP BASE PORTIONINTEGRALLY SECURED TOGETHER ALONG THEIR SIDE EDGES AND HAVING TRANSVERSEPERFORATIONS AND RELATIVELY LARGE HOLES BETWEEN TICKETS TO PROVIDESEMI-CIRCULAR CUT-OUTS ON LONGUTUDINAL ADJOINING TICKETS, IMPRINTINGRANDOM MEMBERS ALONG THE LONGITUDINAL CENTRAL PORTIONS OF SAID STRIPBASE PORTIONS, PERFORATING A SEPARATE CORRESPONDING COVERING SHEETINWARDLY OF THE LONGITUDINAL EDGES OF COVERING STRIP PORTIONS,CORRESPONDING TO THE STRIP BASE PORTIONS, ALONG CONTINUOUS LINES ON BOTHSIDES OF THE CENTERS OF SAID COVERING STRIP PORTIONS WHILE SAID COVERINGSHEET IS LIGHTLY ADHERED TO A CARRIER STRIP, THEREAFTER REMOVING SAIDCARRIER STRIP AND ADHERING THE PERFORATED COVERING STRIP PORTIONS ONLYALONG THE LONGITUDINAL EDGES OF SAID BASE STRIP PORTIONS SO AS TO COVER,WITHOUT